Badiraguato
A municipality in the Sierra Madre Occidental in north-central Sinaloa, a distrito since 1831, suppressed in 1861 and restored in 1894. Its economy combines irrigated agriculture with sierra ranching.
Key facts
- Municipal seat
- Badiraguato · City
- Population
- 26,542 · 2020
- Occupied dwellings
- 7,250 · 2020
- INEGI code
- 25003
Overview
Badiraguato spans the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, in north-central Sinaloa, between the farming plain and the sierra area watered by the Ríos Badiraguato and Humaya.
Its economy combines rain-fed and irrigated agriculture in the lowlands with ranching in the sierra.
History
Badiraguato appears as a distrito as far back as Sinaloa's first Constitution, of 1831. It was suppressed in 1861 and its territory was administered from the Distrito de Culiacán; in 1894, the state's sixth Constitution restored it as the state's tenth distrito.
With the 1917 Constitution and the disappearance of the district system, it was consolidated as one of the state's free municipalities.
Geography
The municipality lies in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, watered by the Ríos Badiraguato and Humaya, with elevations ranging from 100 to 2,800 meters above sea level.
The climate is subtropical in the south and center of the municipality, and temperate in the sierra area to the north.
Cities and localities
Municipal seat
Other localities
- Surutato · 1,064 residents (2020)
- San José del Llano · 600 residents (2020)
- Tameapa · 533 residents (2020)
- San Antonio de la Palma · 393 residents (2020)
- Soyatita · 391 residents (2020)
- Batopito · 380 residents (2020)
- La Otra Banda de Badiraguato · 354 residents (2020)
- El Potrero de Bejarano · 315 residents (2020)
- Huixiopa · 298 residents (2020)
The municipality contains 576 localities on the INEGI register.
Related topics
- Agriculture
- Colonial history
- History
Sources and data
The figures on this page come from public sources. Each data point shows its year and origin.
- Evolución histórica de los municipios de México de 1810 a 2020. Sinaloa — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía
- Badiraguato — H. Ayuntamiento de Badiraguato — Gobierno Municipal de Badiraguato
- Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 — Principales resultados por localidad (ITER), Sinaloa — Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía